Subj : Re: Prometheus
To   : jack phlash
From : esc
Date : Thu Jun 20 2024 01:19 am

 jp> I actually really dig Prometheus, some minor plot holes and other silly
 jp> stuff aside. As for it being an origin story, perhaps watching the
 jp> direct sequel, Alien: Covenant, would fill in some more of those gaps
 jp> for you.

I thought it was a fantastic movie, and it's one that could have stood on its own whether or not it was part of the Alien saga.

Thanks for the rec about Covenant. Maybe I'll watch that one Friday with my wife before our crazy weekend kicks off.

 jp> The connection is kind of lose and not as explicit as it could be. The
 jp> gist of it is this: in Alien they find the alien face hugger from eggs
 jp> aboard a crashed alien ship piloted by a giant humanoid alien ("the
 jp> engineer".) In Prometheus, they visit a planet belonging to the very
 jp> same race of giant humanoids and find the black goo biological weapon of
 jp> sorts that mutates the shit out of everything and may or may not have
 jp> been the source of the alien "xenomorphs" themselves being sort of
 jp> biological weapons. Tinkering with said black goo to create xenos may
 jp> have been the actual mission of Weyland and David (but more on that in
 jp> the sequel.) There's also a whole series of hints around the giant
 jp> humanoids themselves having created and/or attempted to wipe out
 jp> humanity on earth in the first scene of the movie.

I definitely got some David creeper vibes. There was more to the story about him for sure.

I want to ask, but won't ask because I'd rather be surprised, why the engineers wanted to wipe out humanity on earth. I'm hopeful this gets explored more.

 jp> Clear as mud? :P

In the pipe five by five, sir!

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